Saturday
Jul182009
A Series of Unfortunate Monograms
July 18, 2009 Who thought this was a good idea?
Or this?
(Never in my life have I so fervently hoped that a cake was chocolate.)Or, Aunt Flo help us, this?
"So, when's the party?"
"At the end of the month."
Amy M., Jenna B., & Kim W., URQTs. At least, I like to think that you are. Not in a creepy way, of course, or like I know firsthand because I secretly stalk you or anything...that would just be weird. I mean, look, I'm just trying to give you a friendly compliment, in a completely platonic, non-stalker-esque kind of way, Ok? Ok. As you were.
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Reader Comments (107)
No monograms on their towel either, please. What are those things on the side of the other cakes? Maybe chocolate might help.
The funny/SAD thing about the KKK baby cake is that it's actually quite nicely done!
The first one looks like a wedding cake and you would hope that the bride realized the monogram, tought it was amusing and went for it. Either that or she was completely ignorant of it and the guests had a good laugh!
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That triple-K name is unfortunate, but I love the cake! Especially the little blocks and the bottle!
My dear friend is named Kim and her daughter is Kayla and her son is named Kaden. Kim's mom bought her a necklace with all three of their initials on it for Mother's day. It was lovely, but, alas, Kim had to return it.
That SOB wedding cake is hilarious! The KKK baby though...uh...hopefully seeing that on her cake prompted mommy to realize what a terrible mistake she was making.
Maybe the other side of the blocks on the baby cake say N O T, just to clear up any confusion. I do like the baby footprints on the sides. Maybe they're stamping out racism?
This makes me feel a lot better that my boyfriend and I are "B & J"... although we'd just go for the single last name monogram.
I'm hoping that only the baby's first name begins with K, and the decorator was just being a little too enthusiastic about it?
I had a friend in high school named Kevin K. who told us that his parents were going to give him the middle name Kyle, but then realized his initials would be KKK (and they're Jewish), so they gave him Oliver instead. Because having "KOK" written on your backpack in middle/high school is oh so much better... (Try saying it aloud.)
Oh dear, those are a bit unfortunate.
I went to HS with a friend who's initials were KKK. Her parents were from the Phillipines and no idea that 3Ks would mean anything here, lol.
The baby cake is cute, but I am wondering about the perspective of the pacifier (is that what it is?) nipple vs the bottle's.
wv: coitero - ha!
Will someone who is braver than me please define this?
That baby cake is pretty sucky..what kind of bottle is that..and what is that next to it...what kind of deformed pacifier is the size of a golf ball and poop brown color...or is it suposed to be something else?
Woah. Just...Woah. I want to know WHY the baby cake says KKK - Is that really the baby's initials? That's a lot of K's!
The parents didn't really think those initials through, did they?
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
We have both of those sets of initials in my family so I didn't really get offended at either of them. Guess I'm desensitized.
Gee, I don't know...
Those baby footprints, buldging out of the cake sides as they are, actually look as if a bunch of captive babies are trying to kick their way out of their fondant prison.
Sort of reminiscent of "Sing a Song of Sixpence," which goes like this:
Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of steak,
Four and twenty babies baked in a cake.
When the cake was opened the babes began to wail,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to prove itself a fail?
>^??^<
This is so hilarious!
The "KKK" cake is cute but I'm torn on the baby footprints. On one hand, they're well done and sweet...on the other hand, it looks like there are alien babies inside the cake trying to muscle their way out.
Maybe it was the decorators fault and the first cake should have read S & B? I'm sorry for the baby if those are really his/her initials. I could see this being the decorators fault, as well, maybe only the baby's first name starts with a K.
I should know better than to eat while reading this blog. I really should.
I like to think SOB stands for Silly Old Bear. The cake is quite pretty though.
wv dises I imagine the bride saying she will smack an SOB who dises her cake.
Our son *almost* has the initials ASS. But... we're just not that mean.
Sendingtheclowns, I LOVE your song.
wv: alichsol. Hopefully the guests have enough alichsol...alcmahol...get drunk enough not to notice the wedding cake.
There is a Ramones song "The KKK took my baby away!" I bust out laughing when I saw this post!
The top one took me a minute to get. It is subtle. The bottom one? Not so much. I also enjoyed the link to the freudian slip cake. I can't believe how much I love this site. Keep up the great work!!
*snicker* hoping the cake was chocolate! you're bad
My last name starts with a K, so when we were considering baby names for my daughter, we were really carefully not to accidentally spell out anything, or end up with KKK initials. You would think these people realized the implications of their initials at some point before seeing them immortalized in cake....
My parents intentionally named my brother Kyle instead of Zachary so that their three kids would all have first names that started with K.
Like it never occured to them that might be a bad thing.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
I'd be SOBbing myself.
I have a friend who's initials are now KKK, so I guess it doesn't matter what you name your child they'll mess it up when they get married. LOL! But DH & I thought long and hard about our kid's initials hoping they wouldn't spell anything no matter who she marries.
I've never understood the Monogram thing myself.
I am with sendingtheclowns on the baby footprints. Coulda been sweet, but ended up kinda creepy. Reminds me of the old series "V",when the baby lizard thing burst from the woman's stomach. "Happy baby shower, Martha! Hope the kid doesn't do a roundhouse and come flying out your belly button! Let's have some cake!"
I went to school with a guy whose name was Kajun Klark Kelley. I can't recall what he said when I asked him about it.
Sendingintheclowns needs a lil break. o.O
Or plenty of black coffee...
But that's a pretty good suggestion for a deliberate wreck: baby feet sticking out of the sides of a cake
Maybe the "O" was supposed to be a wedding ring and was really poorly done? So: S -wedding ring- B? One can only hope...haha
My own parents almost gave me the initials KKK. They, unlike the unfortunate person with the baby cake, realized their mistake BEFORE putting it on my birth certificate.
And this is EXACTLY why my wedding cake is having only our last initial monogramed on it. Otherwise it would say ARM. Not as bad as these too but still pretty embarrassing.
Word Verification for ousifin: Ousifin idea was it to put these initials on cakes?
Lulz at KKKake.
LOL forever at the SOB cake.
April ~ loved your WV. I am so not even going there ...
My WV is berst. I may berst because I am laughing so hard at these cakes!
A cake is worth a thousand words!
Rocco
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What were they thinking ? The cakes are pretty in spite of the monograms !
After my mom had to endure the tirades of a sister's friend about how much she hated her initials (WAR - great fun during the Korean and Vietnam era, I'm sure), my parents tried to think through our initials very carefully, but they somehow missed that my sister's spells the name of an animal if you do first name - last name - middle name. Still, an animal is far better than an organization known for racial violence. Or even an less than endearing epithet.
Word verification: shilver. Learning there are babiesh out there with KKK namesh shent a shilver up Sean Connery's shpine.
I don't think two cakes counts as a series.
I'd completely missed the KKKake. I thought the problem was the babyfeet - if it'd just been that, I'd have said that I hoped it to be red velvet cake.
Jen you never cease to crack me up. I'm dying at your strong desire for the KKK cake to be chocolate. Hilarious.
(Sigh) So many parents overlook the initials a child will have when naming their baby. Though they can have interesting outcomes. From among my friends, there's a SHT, an ACE, and a GOD.
Our daughter almost ended up with the initials KKK. Fortunately, we noticed before in time and changed the middle name from Kathleen to Margaret.
@ Sharon:
Break? Who, me? Shirley you jest.
Now, coffee--yes, yes, YES--but no blecchhkk coffee for me, thanks. Lots of cream and non-dairy sweetener. Aaaahhhh.
Got some brewing right now...care to join me?
By the by and FYI, it's actually "sendingtheclowns," not "sendingINtheclowns." It's my take on the song, "Send In The Clowns," from the musical "A Little Night Music." No biggie. Keep the change.
>^~-^<
I can remember around 1980 there was a local music group with triplet sisters whose names started with K. They called the band "Triple K". Even at a young age, I knew that wasn't the greatest band name to go with.
My initials are BS... may they never end up on a cake.